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Trilogy of the desert: Mirage

Trilogy of the desert: Mirage
 (1946)

Medium
oil on canvas
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Eugenie Crawford Bequest, Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest, The Nigel Peck AM and Patricia Peck Fund, Morry Fraid AM and The Spotlight Foundation, The Fox Family Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison, The Hansen Little Foundation, The Betsy and Ollie Polasek Endowment and donors to the 2018 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2018 NGV Annual Appeal, 2017
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/VEGAP, Madrid. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
36.1 × 59.3 cm
Place/s of Execution
California / New York, United States
Inscription
inscribed (diagonally) in black paint l.c.l.: DALI
Accession Number
2017.453
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Eugenie Crawford Bequest, Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest, The Nigel Peck AM and Patricia Peck Fund, Morry Fraid AM and The Spotlight Foundation, The Fox Family Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison, The Hansen Little Foundation, The Betsy and Ollie Polasek Endowment and donors to the 2018 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2018 NGV Annual Appeal, 2017
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/VEGAP, Madrid. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Subjects (general)
Architecture Human Figures Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
Apollo (Greco-Roman deity) arches busts (general, figures) classicism deserts flowers (plant components) stonework women (female humans)

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